Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This agrees with the observation that human marathons are won at about half the speed of 100 m sprints . |
| 2 | But , such was her superiority over Good For The Roses and 17 others that she could have won at almost any distance . |
| 3 | Windows are like eyes : they are looked at as much as they are looked out of . |
| 4 | No doubt my prejudices are coloured by having looked at too much epicontinental sediment and not enough oceanic , but I must plead in my defence that this is the nature of the stratigraphical record on the continents anyway . |
| 5 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 6 | you 've done at least some work in the last two weeks ' maths lessons . |
| 7 | Space has allowed me to use only a fraction of the wealth of material provided ; I only hope I have not made too many mistakes or significant omissions and have done at least some justice to all . |
| 8 | Sometimes fish need to be separated at very little notice and unfortunately not every hobbyist has the space or funds to facilitate a spare tank . |
| 9 | Perhaps it meant that Cindy Hill had revealed at least some of whatever it was that bothered her , which was a good thing , really . |
| 10 | It was found that an all-British car could be built at approximately half the cost of the £300,000 for an imported model . |
| 11 | It must be said at once that fears as to this are greatly exaggerated : most incestuous activity does not lead to pregnancy , while , when it does , favourable genetic attributes can be transmitted as well as unfavourable ones . |
| 12 | It may be said at once that of these dates the most inherently improbable is the last , that given by the later Turkish tradition . |
| 13 | The classic example of AGR failure , the Dungeness B plant on the Kent coast , eventually took about twenty years to finish , cost £3.5 billion to build ( at 1988 prices ) — roughly five times its original estimate — and has never operated at even half its intended capacity . |
| 14 | It stated that anyone who moved into a property valued at less that £10 a year could be sent back to the place where he or she was last legally settled if they were likely to become chargeable to the poor rates . |
| 15 | The goodwill in such cases is commonly valued at so many weeks betting receipts ( often three to four weeks ' is used ) . |
| 16 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 17 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 18 | This allows them to be produced at virtually any size and in a number of different styles as required . |
| 19 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 20 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 21 | In the thymuses of the wild-type and TCR -β ( as well as TCR -α ) heterozygous mice , rearrangement has occurred at nearly half of the TCR- α alleles ( see Fig. 4 legend for definition of the rearrangement index , RI ( α ) ) . |
| 22 | I rather feel that men ( and women ) who gently imply that they 'd quite like their partners to keep some items of clothing on should probably be humoured at least some of the time . ’ |
| 23 | represents a future to be avoided at almost any cost . |
| 24 | For decades the revolutionaries had rejected outright capitalism , the bourgeoisie , and the Western path in general ; they had seen the creation of a propertyless proletariat as a disaster to be avoided at almost any cost and had sought to move directly to socialism based on the commune . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , and where would that be , Mr Ruddles ? ’ asked Tom , a little perturbed at so many dramatic entrances in one evening . |
| 26 | Decision height ( OCL plus 60 ft ) must be reached at least half to one minute from the threshold , so that visual contact can be made in conditions permit . |
| 27 | The Countess , like the Merry Widow , could be played at almost any age providing she was elegant . |
| 28 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 29 | It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them . |
| 30 | And having arrived at so much in the way of a comparison , she saw , suddenly revealed to her , how much there had been in those other rooms to admire . |